_What Can Be Transplanted

Some of what can be transplanted.

Bone and tissue allografts (see definition at "What it is" page on this site) have many uses for patients, but overall they save lives, repair limbs, and enhance the quality of a patient’s life. Allografts may be used to replace damaged heart valves and skin; however, they are more frequently used in orthopedic surgery to replace tendons or bones as necessary.A variety of transplantable organs and tissues can be used for allografts. These include:

Saphenous Veins—Longest
vein in the leg, which carries blood from the leg back to the heart.
Used in patients to bypass obstructions in the heart or to reconstruct
blocked or damaged vessels of the leg.

Skin—Protects
the body against dehydration, injury and infection. Used as a temporary
covering for burn patients, decreases pain, infection, scarring, heat
loss and fluid loss.